Give me your drops ye soft descending ruins

DMI number:

19016

Poem Aliases

Rowe. Jane Shore.

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Evidence:

First Line:

Give me your drops ye soft descending ruins

Last Line:

And feeding an everlasting flood of sorrow

Poem Genre / Form:

Extract / snippet from longer work

Themes:

Grief / sadness / melancholy

Related People

Author:

Nicholas Rowe

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Extract from Jane Shore Act 5 Scene 1. Dramatic Works II.

Content/Publication

Title:

Thesaurus Dramaticus. Containing all the celebrated passages, soliloquies, similies, descriptions, and other poetical beauties in the body of English plays. [1724] [2 vols] [ESTC T134540]

Page No(s):

pp.161-162

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Rowe's Jan. Shore.

Attributed To:

Nicholas Rowe